Thanks again for all the welcomes & comments and thanks for the picture of the demountable towing a boat. Did you have to add something to your trailer to increase the distance between the back of the camper & the boat? I was looking at it a couple of days ago and I'm worried that my dinghy will be too close to the vehicle and catch the camper when I turn.

As for the woodturning bit, its something I started at woodwork night school and I found that its relaxing to see shavings flying over my shoulder and a lump of wood turn into something useful and, hopefully, beautiful.

Its not an expensive hobby. I picked up a second hand lathe and a set of chisels and some decent wood for about £140 from the widow of a friend of a friend but if you get addicted it can be like any other hobby and you can spend a fortune on tools and gadgets to get "perfect" results. Fortunately, I'm a bit tight and I don't spend too much on tools but I'm a bit of a bugger for splashing out on new finishes. I hardly spend anything on wood as I beg, steal and borrow 95% of the stuff I turn and like to recycle old wood. Here is a picture of a bowl I turned for a VIP visitor to our sailing club. It cost nothing as the bowl is made from the back end of a boat which had been abandoned in the dinghy park and the oak insert came from an off cut of the fence. I can't claim credit for the etching as my wife does that side of things.

Nice work Black Countryman on that bowl out of interest how many hours to create something like that my FiL used to do that years back tried to get me interested but i dont have the attention span/patience